1. Foreword

   • Y Narahar
   • M Kamath
   • Ravi Anupindi

   Competitive Manufacturing Systems Pages: 1 - 3

2. Single- and multiobjective optimization problems in robust parameter design

   • Amit Mathur
   • Krishna R Pattipati

   Competitive Manufacturing Systems Pages: 5 - 32

3. Managing configurable products in the computer industry: Planning and coordination issues

   • Ramesh Srinivasan
   • Jayashankar M Swaminathan

   Competitive Manufacturing Systems Pages: 33 - 43

4. Recent developments in single product, discrete-time, capacitated production-inventory systems

   • Sridhar Tayur

   Competitive Manufacturing Systems Pages: 45 - 67

5. On the optimality of exhaustive service policies in multiclass queueing systems with modulated arrivals and switchovers

   • Y Narahari
   • N Hemachandra

   Competitive Manufacturing Systems Pages: 69 - 82

6. An extension of modified-operational-due-date priority rule incorporating job waiting times and application to assembly job shop

   • P G Awate
   • P V Saraph

   Competitive Manufacturing Systems Pages: 83 - 100

7. Modelling and simulation of just-in-time flexible systems

   • K Ravi Raju
   • K Rama Bhupal Reddy
   • O V Krishnaiah Chetty

   Competitive Manufacturing Systems Pages: 101 - 120

8. A re-entrant line model for software product testing

   • VVS Sarma
   • D Vijay Rao

   Competitive Manufacturing Systems Pages: 121 - 132